Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-26
THE EAST.

THE EAST.
THE Pennsylvania Senate's Woman Suf-
frage bill has been shelved by the Speaker
OF the House.
THE Queen of the Sandwich Islands Wis
tied Central park, New York City, the
other afternoon, and at night witnessed a
performance of 'sThe Black Hussar."
TWENTY cOlored persons from Reading,
Pa, were refused rooms at the hotels in
Bethlehem the other night. Law suits
were threatened.
THE trial of Jacob Sharp, the king hood
Ter of New York, commenced ON the 10Th.
THE steamer Fulda went ashore at Bay
Ridge recently in swinging off from quar-
antlne. Her seventy cabin passengers were
taken off and brought to New York.
GOVERNOR HILL. of New York, has sent
the name of Colonel Fred Grant to the
State Senate for Quarantine Commissioner
ALL the shoe factories in and about Hav-
erhiil, Mass. have closed their doors be-
cause of a strike in one of the shops.
FIRE in Lawrence, Mass, the other
night destroyed the old No. 1 Wash
ington mill, huge structure worth $780,
600.
WILLIAM II. MCILHANY, general freight
agent of the New York Central railroad,
has been discharged because of old charges
of having embeZzled $25, 600.
MADAME JANAUSCHEK, the noted actress,
fell down flight of fourteen steps in a
hotel at Newport, r. l., recently, brea king
her right arm and bruising her whole body
Her dates were cancelled.
JAMES P. MCCABE, who was sentenced to
be hanged May 26 for the murder of
Michael Riley, made his escape from the
Wayne County (Pa) Jail on the 18th.
ONE of the most powerful Celtic organi-
cations in this country, the Clan-na- Gael, is
said at New York to be about stranded on
the shores of financial ruin by one of its
most prominent officials leaving for parts
unknown with no less than $40, 900 avail
able funds which it had gathered together
for the purpose of being used for the cause
of Ireland.
"OLD PoMP," the lion Of the Philadelphia
geological Gardens, died the other day at
the age of twenty-nine years.
NEW YORK capitalists have bought all
the street railroads of Mobile, Ala.
NINE. LEO HEYDE, a noted soprano of
Pittsburgh, Pa, committed suicide recently
by hanging; cause, poor health.
THE Clan-na-Gael is reported to have gone
to pieces over internal feuds In the recrim-
nations Rev. George c. Belts is accused of
furnishing the London Times with informa-
ton on which that paper based it's recent
exposures.
The employees of the John Stephenson
Car Building Company at New York struck
recently for an advance.
"A LAhGE meeGlnS was nclQ OnQer the aus
pices of the Canadian Club at New York
recently. The meeting was addressed by
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio, who
favored breaking down all the commercial
restrictions between Canada and the nited
States.
A MASS meeting was held at Cooper I'm
ion, New York, on the 10Th to protest
against the pending extradition treaty with
Russia. o.
ACCORDING to a statement made by Henry
S. Ives, at New York, a consolidation of the
Baltimore & Ohio telegraph, with the Pos
tai and other independent lines is to be
made, the consolidation taking the form of
q new company, of which the Baltimore &
Ohio will take half of the stock and so OBJ
tain control.
OVER 1000 acres of forest, occupying a
tract nearly two miles long, extending
from Thomastown to Reynolds bridge,
Conn, was burned the other day. The
fire was attributed to sparks from locomo-
tives. A building for the storage of pow
der, belonging to the Plymouth Granite
Company, was destroyed.
ANTONIO MUCA DE VAIL AMBRosIA the
Marquis de Mores, well known in conuec-
ton with the National Consumers Meat
Company and a big cattle ranch proprietor,
was arrested in New York recently on
complaint of Samuel Grimshaw, who sues
to recover 10000, charging the Marquis
with fraud.